Yah, I bet they take magazines, take pictures of the pages, edit them with paint, then publish them. Yup. Smart. Moving on, having different food brands in their own language is censorship. Right. SIGH

this is not applicable but in certain Islamic countries. Other countries in the middle east such as Lebanon for instance have no such cencorship on ads. you can find a Lingerie add with a thong hanging lose of a chick's ass while driving on the highway.

as for changing the brand name from english to arabic, i dont see the issue there. if it was set in chinese many people would have had their mouthes closed. btw, in marketing when targeting a country you should respect the culture of that country. for instance, MacArabia from MacDonalds is only served in the middle east, whereas wine is served only in France with a Big MAc!

And then again: Someone in a culture without any body / nudity taboos could very easily make a similarly ridiculling photo report about Western (and USA in particular) ads and other media content cencorship. Like when CK was reported for displaying "child pornography" in their ads for boys' underwear: It was claimed that it was possible to see that one of the folds in the underpants of that four year old boy was caused by his penis. So, although only the fold was visible, it was child pornography...

Pixelation is nowadays used so excessively that it makes me laugh. Sometimes, the only reason why I know there was something "indecent" in a newspaper picture is that my attention is drawn to it by extreme pixels. Or, you see newsstories about some woman accidentally displaying more skin than morally acceptable, with a "non-illustration" where the entire subject of the story has been hidden by four or six gigantic pixels covering the entire bosom of the woman...

Or, the classical censor strips on photographs of tribal people. National Geographic was world famous for NOT using them, everone else did. Nowadays, even NG practically without exception restricts themselves to pictures where certain parts of the body are "accidentally" hidden by another object. That is not too different from "Even cartoon characters must be dressed".

We find it extremely silly that some moslem countries demand that arms be clothed, yet we are shocked by people who suggest that breasts need NOT be clothed. The principle is the same in both cases: Some skin should not be exposed. Details of where to draw the line betweeen forbidden and permitted skin are nothing but details.

Those lines may change quite a lot over the years. When I was a boy, nobody would ever consider a photo of a naked child "pornography" as long as the child had no explicit signs of sexual maturity, i.e. well into the school years, while porno magazines displayed women in underwear as "daring" pictures. Nowadays, ordinary newspapers regularly show pictures of adults having intercourse, but in their midsummer reports from the beach, you won't even see a naked two year old without his/her private parts being discretely hidden behind some object, or pixelated. -- That is in Europe, but USA has seen the same trend: NG can't even show young tribal children without concern for what could be termed child pornography, while adult pornography is more or less freely available on the Internet.

This ridiculing photo series is rather hypocritical. We WANT censorship - it is only that we have slightly different ideas about what should be censored.

euhh sorry but O_o...we have to respect other culture.and sorry but the woman are so many times using for sale like object (where is the feminist ??)

and for the arabic marks....O_o in Japan you see its with japaneese language, because arabs have a different ortohgraphe.

its stupid....no...its islamophoebia!!

for the First remark.....the red cross....there is no relation between this and the crusade O_o....its just the Red creasent...the equivalent of Redcross...and where is the problem is the her Symbole O_o.....You have a great problém

LOL at the stupid people commenting and hating againthis article just shows examples of censorship in arabic countries, what's wrong with that. Relax, Izi didn't comment on censorship or islamic stuff... what's with the trolling each time it deals with arab or Islamic stuff? You can't stand reality?

Well, I'm an arab, and this post just made me realize i must get rid of my dog, fear a cross like a vampire and stop buying magazines where people in ads have open eyes. Thank you so much, you saved my soul.

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